Flower Quotes

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

~ Alan Kay

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

~ Georgia O'keeffe

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

~ Georgia O'keeffe

A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.

~ Anna Held

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

~ Abraham Lincoln

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

~ Charles A. Beard

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

~ John Muir

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

~ Francis Thompson

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.

~ Paula Cole

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

~ Russell M. Nelson

Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist.

~ Ray Comfort

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

~ Paul Cézanne

Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.

~ Edmund White

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

~ Honoré De Balzac

You go into the book store, there's the cut-out of Dr. Phil, and then the dreaded women's health section where every book, instead of the menopause book with the fanged Medusa head on the cover that might be more pertinent, you always see a flower and a poppy and a daisy and a stethoscope.

~ Sandra Tsing Loh

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

~ William Blake

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

~ William Wordsworth

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

~ Ramakrishna

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

~ D. H. Lawrence

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

~ Dōgen

One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.

~ Tom Hodgkinson

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

~ J. M. Roberts

Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.

~ Robert Fortune

Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.

~ Thomas Nashe

Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.

~ Sappho

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

~ Lewis Mumford

London, thou art the flower of cities all!

~ William Dunbar

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

~ Marc Chagall

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.

~ Marcelene Cox

Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner.

~ Ravi Shankar

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

~ Willie Nelson

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

~ Malcolm De Chazal

The very best hotel I've stayed in is the Intercontinental on Park Lane. We went there for the Chelsea Flower Show a few years ago, and it was sheer luxury. Everybody had a smile on their face. I came home and changed all my pillows because the hotel ones were so beautiful.

~ Mary Berry

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

I'm very romantic. I've emptied flower shops.

~ Bob Hoskins

Every garden scheme should have a backbone, a central idea beautifully phrased. Every wall, path, stone and flower should have its relationship to the central idea.

~ Edwin Lutyens